Altered Pages and Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween 2014 Blog Hop- Day 13

Welcome to Day 13 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop. My post today is doing a bit of double duty again. I am also posting for Altered Pages, and we have a wonderful sponsor this month ... Art Anthology.  I hope you will check out the Altered Pages blog for more inspiration using this wonderful acrylic paint and sprays.

As you know by now, I am also participating in this month-long blog hop with some extremely talented artists.  The complete list of Wicked Bloggers (that's what we are called) are in my side bar.  There are lots of prizes in the daily scavenger hunt, and a Grand Prize worth over $300.

To see all of the rules and regulations for 31 Days of Halloween 2014, please visit THIS POST.
To see Scavenger Hunt winners from previous days, please visit THIS PAGE
My project is a free-standing canvas that you could sit out with the rest of your Halloween decorations.

Cut candelabra and spider from graveyard black card stock adhered to lightweight chipboard.  Add a thick coat of Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint to the candles and Black Soot distress glitter to the spider.

After these dry, apply distress inks to the candles:  Pumice Stone, Vintage Photo, Scattered Straw (candles); Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo (flames).  I also added Pewter and Olive metallic rub-on to the black portion of the candelabra.

Cut Chevron from any color scrap paper and a weathered clock from chipboard.  Adhere to chipboard  with gel medium, allowing some of the clock to hang off.   Trim excess clock piece.

Apply coat of white gesso over all, including the clock hands, let dry.

Apply coat of Art Anthology (AA) Imperial over canvas, let dry.

Look how luscious, thick and creamy this paint is.  It drys dimensional, too.

I did a little finger painting (my favorite kind) by applying AA Red Velvet Cake over the clock.  After that dried, I later added some of the Foundry Bronze Gilder's Paste to the high spots.

Stamp script from Apothecary set onto background with black StazOn ink.

I added a thick coat of the AA Red Velvet Cake over the clock hands and allowed to dry.  Then I highlighted with Foundry Bronze Gilder's Paste by hitting the high spots.  

I used a brad from my stash with a large head (any shape or color will work) and inserted it through the openings.

This gave me some area to glue my cameo skull to.  Set aside.

I then added a light coat of AA Limeaid randomly to the canvas, and wiped gently with a baby wipe.  This left a beautiful golden tone, which I hope you can see in the photos.  It looks really pretty in person.

Next, I applied some very watered down AA Red Velvet Cake from the top of the canvas and let it drip down like "BLOOD" (using my Bella Lugosi vampire voice).  I applied a very thick coat right at the top of the canvas for effect!

Next, I adhered all my parts and pieces as shown in the finished photo.  I also added some cob webs by taking strings from a piece of cheesecloth and adhering just where I wanted them.  It was a little tedious, but I enjoy doing things like that.  

I also added some Petaloo black flowers, and a couple of handmade flowers I made from squishing up pieces of shipping paper after spritzing them with glimmer mists.  I made them last year and had some left to use this year.  

To finish it off, I covered the back and sides with graveyard black paper, and cut an easel that I covered with the black paper.  See my post here for more information on the easel.

Supplies:

6"x 6" square thick chipboard plaque (check out Altered Pages selection of art boards and canvases here)

Graveyard Black Paper

Cameo Skulls

Gilder's Paste - Foundry Bronze

Art Anthology Dimensional Acrylics: Terra Cotta, Imperial, Red Velvet Cake, Limeaid

Black StazOn ink pad

Metallic Rub-On Sets (Palette 2)

Gel Medium; White Gesso

Petaloo Flowers

Sizzix dies:  Tim Holtz Weathered Clock; Small Easel; Chevron decorative strip

Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Apothecary stamp set

Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint

Black Soot distress glitter

Distress Ink Pads:  Pumice Stone,Vintage Photo, Scattered Straw, Mustard Seet

I hope you enjoyed my home decor piece today.  Thanks so much for stopping by, and enjoy the hop!

Barbara Rankin